What makes a person great or better than anyone else? In The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the title seems to be one of the most confusing concepts about the book. The book makes us as reader look at the title in three different ways, a surface of Gatsby's persona, irony, or as Gatsby’s “great heart”. In the first couple chapters of The Great Gatsby, we only get to see the surface level of Gatsby through Nick's’ point of view. We see that Gatsby is one of the richest people on West Egg, and one of the richest people in Long Island. In the beginning all we know is he is some rich guys that throw extravagant parties all the time. The fact that these parties are legendary and happen almost weekend. Gatsby treats his fellow party goers …show more content…
Readers find out in the middle of the book that Gatsby was not always wealthy. We find out that Gatsby got to the top in an illegal way. Gatsby was a bootlegger to get all of his money. The people of “old money” can see right through him and knows that had to do something bad to get where he was at. The people of old money know he is a phony and Gatsby is not great to them, more like a disgrace. Once everything of Gatsby’s starts to fall apart, everyone that was at all of his parties was nowhere to be found. They all came when Gatsby had something to give them, but the minute they could offer their respect no one came or give their sympathy. “When the Jazz History of the World was over, girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders … swooning backward playfully into men’s arms … but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link.” (pg. 50) This part of the book tells readers that Gatsby may have an extravagant, but he doesn’t have the one reason why he tries so hard and gets all of this money, Daisy. Even though Gatsby has all of this money, he doesn’t have anybody to share it